LESSON I.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“They that live in glass houses, should not throw stones.”—­Adage.  “If a man profess Christianity in any manner or form whatsoever.”—­Watts cor. “For Cassius is aweary of the world.”  Better:  “For Cassius is weary of the world.”—­Shak. cor. “By the coming-together of more, the chains were fastened on.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Unto the carrying-away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.”—­Bible cor. “And the goings-forth of the border shall be to Zedad.”—­Id. “And the goings-out of it shall be at Hazar Enan.”—­See Walker’s Key “For the taking-place of effects, in a certain particular series.”—­West cor. “The letting-go of which was the occasion of all that corruption.”—­Owen cor. “A falling-off at the end, is always injurious.”—­Jamieson cor. “As all holdings-forth were courteously supposed to be trains of reasoning.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”—­Bible cor. “Sometimes the adjective becomes a substantive.”—­Bradley cor. “It is very plain, that I consider man as visited anew.”—­Barclay cor. “Nor do I anywhere say, as he falsely insinuates.”—­Id. “Everywhere, anywhere, elsewhere, somewhere, nowhere”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 115.  “The world hurries off apace, and time is like a rapid river.”—­Collier cor. “But to new-model the paradoxes of ancient skepticism.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “The southeast winds from the ocean invariably produce rain.”—­Webster cor. “Northwest winds from the highlands produce cold clear weather.”—­Id. “The greatest part of such tables would be of little use to Englishmen.”—­Priestley cor. “The ground-floor of the east wing of Mulberry-street meeting-house was filled.”—­The Friend cor. “Prince Rupert’s Drop.  This singular production is made at the glasshouses.”—­Barnes cor.

   “The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife
    Gives all the strength and colour of our life.”—­Pope.

LESSON II.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah.”—­Bible cor. “In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, began Omri to reign over Israel.”—­Id. “He cannot so deceive himself as to fancy that he is able to do a rule-of-three sum.”  Better—­“a sum in the rule of three.”—­Qr.  Rev. cor. “The best cod are those known under the name of Isle-of-Shoals dun-fish.”—­Balbi cor. “The soldiers, with downcast eyes, seemed to beg for mercy.”—­Goldsmith cor. “His head was covered with a coarse,